detestation
abhorrence; hatred.
a person or thing detested.
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How to use detestation in a sentence
Hostility to the non-urban regions includes a detestation of suburbia.
As he was carried along he made his will, in which he bequeathed his detestation of popery to his friends and brethren.
Fox's Book of Martyrs | John FoxeInto that game Michael poured all he felt of savage detestation for everything that the Modern side stood for.
Sinister Street, vol. 1 | Compton MackenzieHe therefore urged the Achaeans not only to decline the offer, but to hold Eumenes in detestation for thinking of making it.
The Histories of Polybius, Vol. II (of 2) | PolybiusBut you are exhausted; and notwithstanding my detestation of that infernal tyrant, your master, I am a humane man.
Wandering Heath | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
She and Lady Ralegh had 'an ancient acquaintance,' which had resulted in mutual detestation.
Sir Walter Ralegh | William Stebbing
British Dictionary definitions for detestation
/ (ˌdiːtɛsˈteɪʃən) /
intense hatred; abhorrence
a person or thing that is detested
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